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  1. Emma

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    That doesn't work in the shoutbox. It forces the filter on it with no bypass and it does it sloppily.
  2. Emma

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    I love our video sharing threads. And we must keep them... But they really stress out everyone's PCs with the high number of posts per page we have. They struggle to load all the videos on a page. Could we possibly change the forum's default number of posts per page... perhaps to 15 like it used...
  3. Emma

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    When we did the switch, we were not told blogs wouldn't survive so most people did not save their blogs. The only record of most of them is in the old archives saved from the move. When I asked about this immediately when the blogs were announced to not be coming back, after the move was done, I...
  4. Emma

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    I'm sure it's possible. However the current infractions thread was made in the first place because the mods were ignoring and brushing under the rug any infraction complaints that were taken privately. Usually not even bothering to respond. Or if they do, all they ever said was "our decision...
  5. Emma

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    But should it be all on them? I want people to have... you know... personal lives too. Being a mod is stressful. We can't pile too much on too few people. More mods would help. Oh.. very important, what I just said, we need to recognize that mods are human beings too with their own feelings. I...
  6. Emma

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    Going on what I said, the criticism of mods is absolutely essential. It is very, VERY easy to be tempted by the power. Being constantly open to criticism is an effective buffer against that temptation. Accountability means that the idea of abusing the powers is less tempting because it won't be...
  7. Emma

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    I want to follow this line of thought. Proxy offense is not okay. If you think someone someone said to someone else is offensive, you've got no right to tell that person they should be offended. Everyone needs to understand that. We like to believe negative things about other people. If you...
  8. Emma

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    Not punishing people left and right doesn't mean the mods are not doing their jobs. Far from it. Punishment should be the absolute last resort. The worst chapters in ZD history have been caused by mods being too quick to punish, too eager to be excessively politically correct. Every single time...
  9. Emma

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    The force ignore I have in place seems to be working same as it always has. Only problem is that the "Show Ignored Content" button is still available. For forced ignore cases like mine, stalking, that button should be made inaccessible, which is doable with a simple line of CSS code to hide that...
  10. Emma

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    There is the awards idea that I had. It's not all that should be done but that idea needs to be looked at again. It got quiet. It's in the wiki forum.
  11. Emma

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    I understand that this merger attitude was very popular with the forum staff for years but I have constantly argued against the whole time. It makes things much more difficult to track and moderate. It makes the resulting bigger section appear to have more activity even though overall activity...
  12. Emma

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    Wow... yeah. I just got done saying this was before Garo's time and you got here a year after him. And later for mod. Of course you didn't notice this when you were in there. It was done and gone way before then. It just got a little more gone on the forum switch, but even before then it was...
  13. Emma

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    What part of "defy authority" was hard to understand? That is absolutely not a reason that is just going to be announced as the reason. "Yeah, this act here is going to be banned because we feel it defies our authority." Don't be silly. Instead it'd be an excuse such as the rather ridiculous...
  14. Emma

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    Those are kind of old. Held over from before on the old forum software where it wasn't optional to have a censor. Swearing wasn't really an issue because it was all censored. So... Some of the staff around then choose to view trying to anyway as defying their authority and that was the real...
  15. Emma

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    I dunno. The only positive thing you can get out of it is served by the like system. We removed the reputation system in the first place because it was getting very, very badly abused. People were giving constant negative reputation to people they simply didn't like, negative rep for disagreeing...
  16. Emma

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    I spent a few minutes looking and I couldn't find any. Looked through the entire User's and Profiles list manually, 234 addons in it, and still didn't see anything. So if it is something we really wanted it could still be done but we'd have to do it ourselves and that is not easy. You'd have to...
  17. Emma

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    I'm not entirely sure that this will be doable on XenForo. Even having an optional censor was one of the reasons why we switched to it. So it's not a common feature and there isn't much being looked into for expanding it further than that. I even tried looking for browser addons to do it as...
  18. Emma

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    I don't think something on the forum would necessarily work. Some of the people involved have a habit of saying different things in public that contradict things they've said in a more private setting. And a lot of this has to do with some very personal stuff that tends to bring people shame in...
  19. Emma

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    I kind of lost interest in this particular discussion at the moment because I have a huge headache from everything before. and I don't really know what to do about staff, but I thought I'd just point out that this is what the wiki does. The "rank" above admin there is bureaucrat and we decided...
  20. Emma

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    A while ago I had, via-skype, suggested splitting up this particular section of the forum we're talking in now, Forum Suggestions and Feedback forum, with an official suggestions subforum, with the base forum being for the "feedback" part of it. Each suggestion would have its own short thread...
  21. Emma

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    A change in staff? Absolutely not. Everyone on staff now is great. But I can't disagree that it could benefit from getting some new staff to replace those who retired. The current staff have their own lives and it'd can't be left to just them forever, it's unfair and too much to retain long term...
  22. Emma

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    Say's it's a legit suggestion when it's nothing more than even more nonsensical trolling. You're right, it's not gonna happen. Not agreeing on what constitutes an "obvious problem" doesn't mean that the staff doesn't genuinely care. The staff members that left felt there were "genuine" problems...
  23. Emma

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    Being told "no" to your requests to carry out petty vendettas against people whose only crime was criticizing actions mods were taking doesn't make you a victim. And it doesn't constitute ineffective administration. There was hardly "agreement" in the staff on punishment being deserved. The...
  24. Emma

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    Three. You made all made it quite clear who you were blaming in that resignation thread. And what I can say the only delusion was on your side. Thinking we were out to destroy the site when it was in fact the exact opposite. We were trying to protect the site from the likes of your group, who...
  25. Emma

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    Maybe we can find something we had on the old system? Where it hides some of it if it is too long? That way people don't have to feel limited in what they can put in, but it also won't take up space. There's already something like that build in for long quotes.
  26. Emma

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    That'd be an unnecessary restriction. And the reasoning you gave is unfounded. Having a shoutbox doesn't make people want to post less. It's a baseless conclusion that has been made several times without any evidence. All the top 10 shouters are posting regularly. Some not as prolifically as...
  27. Emma

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    That just seems lazy. If we run a thread for badge submissions, there's no reason why we can't get good ones for everything. We've got plenty of artists around here that could take a crack at it.
  28. Emma

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    I kind of agree. They look awkward together. We couldn't see it until we tested it out just now, but... yeah. they look very conflicting and it is rather jarring.
  29. Emma

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    No, the badge idea was before clans. The clan idea just meshed with it very well and made it more practical to consider.
  30. Emma

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    I still don't think that site staff should be a rank. Instead there should be one for individual staff positions that it can cover. Like news writer, article writer, facebook posters, walkthrough, twitter people, youtube people, wiki ranks. There are plenty of colors to pink from. There's...
  31. Emma

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    Unfortunately a lack of clarity in the small badges is just a given from their nature. If that's a problem, then MAYBE there shouldn't have been a push to delete ranks because of "clutter." You're never going to be able to tell what the small ones mean just like that.
  32. Emma

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    Wait a minute, why are we REDUCING the number of ranks if we're making them display more efficiently, we have room for more. We should have separate ones for everything. Event staff, article editors, various wiki ranks, something for the social pages. If you trim down how many they are, then you...
  33. Emma

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    Testing: Vimeo works too. I remember because I used it before.
  34. Emma

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    Same with a link to the wiki. It's really important that it's easy to access it.
  35. Emma

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    Everyone cares about something. The reasoning "this is a zelda and pokemon forum" is not good enough. It has a general discussion section. That's not an acceptable reason. The safest bet is to add back all the emotes that were removed because you thought they were irrelevant. The only ones we're...
  36. Emma

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    Aesthetics are an opinion, not an objective fact. What looks good to you might not look good to someone else. Assuming everyone shares your tastes is a mistake. Using your tastes as justification for doing something without asking the community is a mistake. You can't just say things are...
  37. Emma

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    Maybe take a group of minor changes, like five, ten, at a time and talk about them as a group. That way you don't have to ask about every single little one. I think the very fact people are upset about this shows that it was not "minor" no matter how much you insist it was. And the staff have a...
  38. Emma

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    I seriously doubt that saying you have the right to do as you wish because it's annoying if you can't, is going to convince people you're not abusing your power. Generally that actually has the opposite effect. Even if I agreed the emotes needed cleanup, on which I'm undecided, you still...
  39. Emma

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    Turning it off in general discussion would kill the post counts for a number of people. And most if it has much more substance than the contents of our morning meals. I think it should be on for everything except forum games, mafia, and roleplay. But on in everything else. The community area...
  40. Emma

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    The wiki has four administrators that are active on it. Mases, Locke, Fused, and myself. And the wiki is much much smaller. It also has a handful of patrollers, which are basically like moderators, that seems to be a healthy number for its size. It works well and no one seems to feel pressured...
  41. Emma

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    A Link In Time and Thareous are not forum administrators. They're community coordinators. They're not responsible for moderation like Locke is. You need three administrators tasked with maintaining that part of the forums. You barely take any notice at all of what's going on on the forums, like...
  42. Emma

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    This is a big reason why I think there needs to be two, or three times as many mods as we have right now (four). So the pressure on each one is less. So they don't have to take such a big bite out of their personal lives to do it. Spread the burden over more people so they feel less pressured...
  43. Emma

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    Also it was odd picking people who were rather likely to resign. In particular people who have been gone for a while, or that were relatively new. Dedicated members would be more logical choices.
  44. Emma

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    And... it was still odd choices. Considering that none of them want to touch the hairier areas of the forum with a ten-foot pole. And what about the number of admins. For a forum this size you need a bare minimum of three. One person just can't do everything necessary. And you do avoid problems...
  45. Emma

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    Yeah, for about four minutes. And as I recall, my opinion was about thread necromancy and I was completely disregarded as irrelevant until the policy just fell into irrelevance and disuse with time on its own anyway. You're bothered by the fact that details, or rumors, of your chat are getting...
  46. Emma

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    Good reason not to have only one admin. It's a very bad idea to have only one, no matter their qualifications, because it's too high of a load to realistically put on one person. Face it, Locke ignores issues he finds uncomfortable. There's no point denying it, he does it. He only addresses...
  47. Emma

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    I'm gonna vent. Please hear me out. Except what you said wasn't true. The key part of that suggestion was not protecting ideas. People are taking any criticism of their beliefs as a personal attack against them. No matter how polite and passive that criticism is. And what's worse, the mods have...
  48. Emma

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    Well Garo, we can't argue with the lack of communication. One of the most serious problems with dealing with MD is the complete lack of any communication whatsoever. Whenever mods try to deal with issues in MD, it's, at least from an external perspective, in response to people complaining that...
  49. Emma

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    I'm not sure I agree with Locke that it buries and surpresses activity. But for the purposes of... limiting people's exposure from things they are not mature enough to handle... that won't work for a number of reasons. A number of topics will get people incensed and furious. Religion is an...
  50. Emma

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    I understand it's embarrassing, but you really did do this. It's not a "rumor." It happened. Trying to cover it up is just going to make people think it even more. You need to stop thinking it's going to fix your problems. It's not. When someone accuses you of something, telling them to not talk...
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